<span>to get access to Asian goods such as silk and spices
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B. The English Channel helped protect the island nation of Britain from invasion.
Plato thought that an ideal state should be run by philosphers, by people who knew well the matters for which they decide upon. He believed in a kind of <span>philosophers' aristocracy".</span>
One result was that the act doubled the immigrants allowed into the USA, and created a lottery for visas. This helped decrease xenophobia and ease tension. Another noteworthy result of this act was that it removed homosexuality as grounds of exclusion from immigration and/or naturalization.